Tag: Officer Safety

I’ve been a police officer for nine years, and I’ve spent countless hours training in both patrol and SWAT tactics. I served seven of those years on a SWAT team. ...

Two Courses with  Veteran Instructor R.K. Miller R. K. Miller, a 28-year veteran of law enforcement and seasoned instructor in a variety of disciplines, including firearms, SWAT tactics, chemical agents, ...

Last month, I began my column discussing a 5 Day Reality Based Training Instructor school in north Florida. I described a scenario that included a resistant motorist and a request ...

Every so often we read a tragic story about a plainclothes officer getting shot by uniformed officers who mistook him/her for a gun-wielding suspect. Follow the practices below to avoid ...

After reading Steve Ashley's article "Seeing Green" (August, p. 68), I want to clear up a few misconceptions about night-vision equipment. As a retired police chief, I am familiar with ...

The following information, while not all-inclusive, highlights issues law enforcement officers face when confronting a homicide bomber. Much of this information has been written about and examined at various levels, ...

Dear Bullethead: I work in the northern part of the country for a sheriff’s department that covers several hundred square miles of territory. Sometimes our backup is a long ways ...

Webster's Dictionary defines exigency as "A case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency or plight." While Webster's is certainly not a law enforcement tactical manual, the above ...

Officer safety isn't only about not getting hurt in a fight it extends to surviving the aftermath and avoiding an aftermath at all if it s not necessary. The latter ...

Law enforcement is a profession of close contact with the public at large. To do their job, police officers must constantly come within double-arm's length of other people, an area ...